Courage and Fear

"Fortune sides with he who dares."

Virgil

Courage and Fear

Success and Fame

Rating: 3.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"It requires more courage to suffer than to die."

Napoleon Bonaparte

Courage and Fear

Life and Death

Pain and Tears

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"It is not the size of the dog in the fight, it is the size of the fight in the dog!"

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Courage and Fear

Various

Rating: 5.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Guess if you can and choose if you dare."

Pierre Corneille "Héraclius"

Courage and Fear

Various

Rating: 5.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Cowards suffer, heroes enjoy."

Henry David Thoreau

Courage and Fear

Joy and Sadness

Rating: 4.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!"

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky "Crime and Punishment"

Courage and Fear

Power and Weakness

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair."

gen. Douglas MacArthur

Courage and Fear

Optimism and Hope

Youth and Age

Rating: 5.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"One man with courage makes a majority."

Andrew Jackson

Courage and Fear

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Brave people may be persuaded to an action by representing it as being more dangerous than it really is."

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Courage and Fear

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality."

Clive Staples Lewis

Courage and Fear

Rating: 4.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind."

Ralph Waldo Emerson "Journals"

Courage and Fear

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that many inventions had their birth as toys."

Eric Hoffer

Courage and Fear

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 4.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away."

English Proverbs

Courage and Fear

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Fortune favors the brave."

Virgil "Aeneid"

Courage and Fear

Success and Fame

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is."

Will Rogers

Courage and Fear

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"People are capable of doing an awful lot when they have no choice and I had no choice. Courage is when you have choices."

Terry Anderson

Courage and Fear

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Courage without conscience is a wild beast."

Robert G. Ingersoll

Courage and Fear

Sin and Conscience

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage."

Jean Anouilh "Becket"

Courage and Fear

Life and Death

Rating: 6.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say."

Cyril Connolly

Courage and Fear

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 3.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."

Harold Wilson

Courage and Fear

Rating: 6.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt."

George Sewell

Courage and Fear

Sin and Conscience

Rating: 6.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."

Anais Nin "The Diary of Anais Nin"

Courage and Fear

Life and Death

Rating: 4.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage."

Lao-tse

Courage and Fear

Love

Power and Weakness

Rating: 5.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Courage is fear that has said its prayers."

Dorothy Bernard

Courage and Fear

Rating: 4.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice."

George Jackson

Courage and Fear

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"There is in superstition a senseless fear of God."

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Courage and Fear

God and Religion

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear."

Andrew Carnegie

Courage and Fear

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Fear is conquerable. Doubt is defeatable. Self worth is buildable."

Terri McPherson

Courage and Fear

Power and Weakness

Rating: 9.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"It's a dangerous business going out your front door."

J.R.R. Tolkien "The Fellowship of the Ring"

Courage and Fear

Various

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courage and Fear

Talent and Genius

Work and Laziness

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"[...] only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Courage and Fear

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs."

Samuel Goldwyn

Courage and Fear

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 5.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar."

Erica Jong

Courage and Fear

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life."

Elizabeth Henry

Courage and Fear

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Courage is the price life exacts for granting peace."

Amelia Earhart

Courage and Fear

Peace and War

Rating: 5.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Bravery never goes out of fashion."

William Makepeace Thackeray

Courage and Fear

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears."

Michel de Montaigne

Courage and Fear

Pain and Tears

Rating: 3.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Panic: A highly underrated capacity thanks to which individuals are able to indicate clearly that something is wrong... Given their head, most humans panic with great dignity and imagination. This can be called democratic expression or practical common sense."

John Ralston Saul "The Doubter's Companion"

Courage and Fear

Various

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas."

Erwin Rommel

Courage and Fear

Various

Rating: 3.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice."

James Callaghan

Authority, Government

Courage and Fear

Success and Fame

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown."

John Buchan

Courage and Fear

Peace and War

Rating: 3.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Impossible is a word found only in the dictionary of fools."

Napoleon Bonaparte

Courage and Fear

Optimism and Hope

Work and Laziness

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing."

Friedrich von Schiller

Courage and Fear

Optimism and Hope

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Early and provident fear is the mother of safety."

Edmund Burke

Courage and Fear

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Those who love to be feared fear to be loved."

St. Francis de Sales

Courage and Fear

Love

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Victory depends on whether or not a duelist has the courage to fight until the bitter end."

Abraham Maslow

Courage and Fear

Success and Fame

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood."

Sklodowska-Curie-Maria

Courage and Fear

Intellect, Judgement

Rating: 5.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear Him not."

Saadi

Courage and Fear

God and Religion

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 4)